achieve the impossible

achieve the impossible

To succeed at or overcome a task that is thought (sometimes hyperbolically) to be outside the realm of possibility. People can achieve the impossible if they work together.I felt like I had achieved the impossible when finally I received that promotion last week.

He told Tony Blair at Prime Minister's Question Time: "I know you don't want to talk about the deputy leadership campaign, because the contest looks like it could achieve the impossible, which is to make the current Deputy Prime Minister look like a cross between Ernie Bevin and Demosthenes.

Not that Michael slips up as they deliver a volley of verbal banana-skins, but the chimps almost have the last laugh as they become the first contestants nearly to achieve the impossible and render Barrymore speechless.

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